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Resources

Here you will find some helpful resources for the Remote Backup addon

Videos​

SirGoodEnough has made a great video demonstrating the addon

FAQ

Why is no backup is created?​

This can happen if the add-on is restarted before it has finished creating the last backup. Unfortunately, the HA supervisor API does not report that a backup creation process is still running. Thus it just fails.

Why is SFTP/SCP not working?​

The addon automatically first probes SFTP to copy files. In case that fails, SCP is used as fallback. Please see this discussion for details. In short, the main reason is that SCP was deprecated due to security issues.

Synology​

Note that are some specialities for theses type of NAS:

  • Since about DSM 6.2.x you need to have the user has part of the adminstrator group. see reference
  • The path is different depending on the protocol. While SCP is usually like /volume1/my_path/ SFTP uses a different start directory, thus my_path/ is the equivalent.